This week the Naturalist Weekly blog was all about the second micro-season, The Safflower Blooms, of the mini-season, Grain Full. Mark S, who writes this weekly blog, then informs his readers all about the safflower.
This reader learned so much about the safflower in this blog. Because it is native to the Middle East and Asia, it is a drought-resistant plant and can grow a taproot that extends six feet into the soil. The plant itself can grow as tall as six feet, too. This is just some of the information that is imparted on this week’s blog. To read all about safflowers, check out https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/05/26/micro-season-the-safflower-blossoms-2023/
Per usual, there is haiku to be read by haiku masters like Buson, Issa, and others as well as an invitation to write haiku about current flowering plants from a ‘zoom-in or zoom-out’ method.
This pedometer geek poet made an attempt to write haiku with a ‘zoom-in’ method (going from a more wide angle view to a smaller macro view), but I’m not sure whether it really could be read that way. Regardless, the haiku are as follows:
honeymoon
he tucks a peony
behind her ear
~Nancy Brady, 2021
published in Stardust Haiku, June 2021
late spring…
upon lilac blossoms
honeybees
~Nancy Brady, 2023
To read all the haiku written by other poets, check out the comments at the bottom of the blog post.